WD Blue SN500 review - the end of SATA? | Hardware

This is it folks, the end of SATA is upon us and the WD Blue SN500 is harbinger to the whole affair. Stuffed onto its 80 x 22mm frame is a single 500GB chip of WD’s TLC 3D NAND alongside the company’s own homebrew controller tech. And that makes for a mean combo, delivering blistering, SATA-destroying pace for only $78 (£67).

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[bbtechbbtech]

SATA may not be the predominant tech going forward but to say this is the end of it is naive

[HuntaKiller]

Bought this for rm359 or around $85 in my country..damn gudvalue and I hope the 2tb version will drop in value realfast by year end

[udohansen]

I have a question:
At 4:06 the chart says 191s for the Sn500 to Copy a 30GB File. However by my math, this should be 19.1s.
Otherweise the drive could only transfer 150mb/s

[markdavenportjr]

Nice I'm gonna get it later this week. :)

[James-xsmn]

only in very specific scenarios, for most people especially for gaming Sata ssd's are still all you need.

[congputershop]

will this work on my b450 m-a asus prime?

[JP]

Just last year I got a WD Blue 250GB M.2 for just under £60 and now I could get one with double the capacity for about £10 more 😲 I do have two or three empty M.2 slots available so it's something to think about 😄

[ganeshramesan]

Will this nvme ssd work in m2 sata 3 ssd slot...Since it has B and M slot it will fit in but will it work....?

[R.O.E.]

Nice review!
Anyone have try NVME with SATA 3 or USB C enclosure 😍 maybe get Slightly different speed ?

[redcomn]

This ssd had just crash the market value of all others ssd.

Literally

[pete]

Very impressive, so many stats and comparisons but delivered in a way I can absorb without getting bored.. As you can do this so well by yourself, could I borrow Dave now, he can sit next to me, smile at me and tell me everthing will be alright, would make my world a better place. :thumbsup:

[owenrichardson]

Why 2 notches on the blue & only 1 on the black?

[gcyt]

would VRAM-less affect the performance or reliability as a boot drive

[danceswithsheep]

This a misleading video, M2 slots are becoming more common but as of yet do not have the storage capacity required by gamers. I have 6 internal SATA drives totalling 4Tb as well as a 512gb M.2. Drive for my os and main apps. A single cheap M.2. Card does not signal the end of SATA drives although if they can supply me with 5TB of storage for less than the SATA drives then whoohoo.

[Miko]

I'd rather get 500GB Sata M.2 SSD rather than get a 250GB NVME SSD :/
Chances are you won't notice the difference unless you do Benchmarks :/

[pleaseyourselfsir]

How the heck are you supposed to connect it to your laptop ? ! 🤔🤔🤔

Good video by the way, I never saw this tech before . 🧐🇬🇧👍🏻😬

[vvvblack]

Unfortunately I bought this ssd and it didn't work with my laptop which is dell xps 13 9434

[alvarocastillo]

Hay muchos pobres el sata le queda mucho